Considering we have more than 500 users, I still
wonder if there is a way I can populate their Samba
entries automatically and quickly -- even the value of
SambaPasword is set to be temporary and is different
from the correpsonding userPassword. smbpasswd command
seems only can be used at interactive mode.
That is true, there used to be a flag to allow you to specify the password
as an argument but that is no longer there. That being said, there are ways
to get it to be scripted.
Here the essence of a line I use in my automatic useradd script to get it
done. This is valid bash once you replace the <>'s. I have it in perl with
``, yes there's probably better ways, but this is mine.
(echo <password variable>; echo <password variable>) | <path to smbpasswd>
-s -a <username>